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Originally Posted by quirky3
I agree with MEMASON that it depends how you have it set up. I set up my comcast account to sync up with my blackberry and make emails available there too. I have noticed that after I delete some emails on my laptop, they are still available through my blackberry. I have my blackberry set up to automatically delete all emails greater than 30 days old.
But, that being said - I imagine that comcast "backs up" their emails somewhere in case of the need to recover. Also, I'm not sure how encrypted any of the emails are, so they could be vulnerable to hackers and technical system administrators. Also, like you see on CSI, even when you delete something on your home computer, it stays in memory until it is overlaid by something new.
I try to be careful and never send important info like social security numbers, bank account numbers, or passwords in an email because of the chance it could get hacked.
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This is correct.... When you configure your email client on your computer, there is an option to delete emails, from the server, once they are downloaded to your computer. If you do not check that option, all of your email remains on the server (Comcast, in this case) indefinately. If, however, you checked the delete option, all of your emails are gone.
I use Google and never delete anything, so I have about 4,000 emails out on their server. Believe it or not, I search for 3 or 4 year old emails sometimes...